Force and torque measurement for vehicle testing

Measuring solutions for vehicle and component testing. On track, road or dyno.

Michigan Scientific designs and builds transducers, slip rings, telemetry and signal conditioning. They measure force, torque, strain, temperature, speed and acceleration on the vehicle itself, while it is driven.

All products

LW series Wheel force transducers To know what the road really puts into your vehicle, measure it at the wheel.
TW series Wheel torque transducers To know the torque that really reaches the road, measure it at the wheel.
WIS · WPT · TrueSlip Wheel instrumentation To collect strain, temperature, speed and side slip from the wheel the vehicle already has.
S · SR · B series Slip ring assemblies To get strain and temperature signals off a hub, a disc or a shaft without losing them to noise.
CIT · CBT · TEL-SC · M560 Wireless telemetry To measure torque on a shaft you cannot wire: half shafts, propshafts, dyno couplings.
AMP · SGA · MUX · EC-LV Signal conditioning To amplify a strain gage or a thermocouple next to the sensor, before the signal crosses the slip ring.
FO series Fiber-optic systems To carry a signal through EMI or high voltage and have it arrive clean.
TR3D · TR6D · BPFT Load cells To measure force in three directions at once on a mount, a seat, a pedal or at the tire patch.
PTO · TF Torque transducers To measure the torque of a shaft at the power take-off or between flanges on a test bench.
SW-SR2 · SW-TEL · HBT Steering transducers To measure steering torque and angle on the series steering wheel or the handlebar, in real driving.

Nothing in the range fits your part? We strain gage and calibrate the part itself, so nothing sits in the load path.

Custom transducers

The tests we help run

Our engineers have instrumented wheels, driveshafts, steering columns and suspension links on cars, trucks, tractors and trains. Under each test, the families it draws on.

All applications

Precise. Robust.

Since 1960.

Measured at the source

At the wheel center, on the shaft, in the tie rod. Nothing between the part and the gage, so the load you record is the load the vehicle sees.

Built for hard conditions

Sealed transducers, slip rings and telemetry that run the whole campaign, on snow, ice, salt and off-road. Calibration accredited to ISO/IEC 17025.

Sixty years of testing behind the range

Michigan Scientific engineers have instrumented vehicles for over sixty years. The range answers what they met on the way: a signal to get off a spinning wheel, a vehicle you cannot modify, high voltage and electrical noise.